Finding Aid for the Todd Hunter papers, 1909-1961

Finding aid prepared by Whitney Braun in the Center for Primary Research and Training (CFPRT), with assistance from Kelley
Wolfe Bachli, 2009; additions by Peggy Alexander, 2013; machine-readable finding aid created by Caroline Cubé.

Abstract: Todd Hunter was a CBS radio and television figure in Hollywood in the mid-twentieth century. The collection includes a number
of television play scripts and related materials (script sides, cue sheets, songs, notes). Though it is unclear whether Hunter
authored any of the scripts, he was presumably involved in bringing them to television.

Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Department
of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.

Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library Special Collections. Literary rights, including copyright,
are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright
and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.

Provenance/Source of Acquisition

Gift of Todd Hunter, October 1961.

Processing Note

Processed by Whitney Braun in the Center for Primary Research and Training (CFPRT), with assistance from Kelley Wolfe Bachli,
2009.

Todd Hunter was a radio and television figure in Hollywood in the mid-twentieth century. He worked at CBS Radio and is presumably
the same Todd Hunter who hosted the CBS "News and Rhythm" program with the Carl Hohengarten orchestra (and Tommy Bartlett
as the announcer) in 1939. A 1942 issue of Billboard Magazine and a 1953 bulletin of the Association of American Colleges
mention Todd Hunter as the host of a Chicago news show in the 1940s and a CBS newscast in the 1950s.

Scope and Content

The collection consists mainly of television play scripts and related materials (script sides, cue sheets, songs, notes).
Frank Kelton, Nelson Compston, John Emerson, and Anita Loos authored some of the scripts, but most scripts in the collection
do not indicate an author or authors. It is unclear precisely how Hunter was involved with the scripts; he may have worked
to bring them to television. Some of the plays ("The Love Nest," "Six Cylinder Love," "Under Two Flags," "The Whole Town's
Talking," "The Girl in the Case") were also films in the 1910s through 1950s.

Organization and Arrangement

Scripts and related materials are grouped together according to the production. Non-script-related documents are in the first
folder in the first box.